Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top right to get updates by e-mail.I am heading out to San Francisco next week to speak on an online marketing conference panel, and I need your help in getting dressed.
The panel is taking place Wednesday, April [...]

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Short of cold-sending emails, posting in forums, and other “shot in the dark” networking, would you be willing to share your methods for recruiting affiliates?
The attraction of those recruiting methods is that they essentially don’t cost anything. That explains their popularity and can also be attributed to their effectiveness.
If you’re doing what everybody [...]

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When people think of affiliates, many erroneously think of content sites as synonymous with affiliate sites.
That was the case at the turn of the century, but things have changed significantly over time. In the past several years, affiliates have innovated and redefined the modern affiliate.
Data feeds, coupon sites, social networks, PPC players, rewards sites, SEO [...]

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I’ve never really found much value in LinkedIn - lots of requests for introductions from people I don’t really know for the most part.
So I finally closed my account over there and I’ve started one up at MySpace.
The reasons are many:

It’s a monster community and I want to keep tabs on advertising opportunities
I’m able to [...]

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Back in November 2005, Lee Gientke, ProHealth affiliate manager, wrote a guest blog at GoYaMi on his recent transition from Commission Junction to LinkShare.
The initial blog posting had Lee elated over his migration to LinkShare:
Now that we are live at LinkShare, I can only say how great things are. LinkShare’s reporting is fast and doesn’t [...]

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Affiliate Summit Preview Call on April 20
Double-Dipping the Affiliate Chip
Two Guides to Google AdSense for Affiliates
Affiliate Program News
Trading in LinkedIn for MySpace
Getting Things Done - Book Report for Affiliate Marketers

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There will be an affiliate manager conference call on Tuesday, April 18 at 2 PM EDT.
The call, which is for affiliate managers only, will cover affiliate recruiting strategies. The maximum number of participants on the call will be 96.
Access information for the call is available to members of the AffiliateManager.net forum.
There is no obligation to [...]

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Ever since it was announced that Todd Crawford was leaving CJ, folks in the industry have speculated where he might go next.
Well. it looks like the first stop on the Todd Crawford Express is going to be ReveNews.
Todd just started up a new blog on ReveNews, so I guess he’s not quite done with affiliate [...]

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KowaBunga! Technologies will be hosting the first affiliate marketing golf tournament (as far as I know), the KowaBunga! Open, on Saturday, July 8th (the day before Affiliate Summit begins) on Disney’s beautiful Eagle Pines golf course.
Now through the end of April, KowaBunga! is registering sponsored teams/carts. Treat your affiliates, your staff or your favorite [...]

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Brian Littleton and Carolyn Tang of Shareasale.com are organizing a dinner for affiliate marketers in the Chicago area.
This get together is being billed as a “non-sponsored, non-affiliated, non-partisan affiliate industry dinner.”
The cost of admission is $40, which get you some quality networking with your colleagues, and a five-course, family style dinner at Reza’s in [...]

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